Word: bellyful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Using his strategic committee positions as patronage levers. McCarran built a personal political organization in both Washington and Nevada. He brought scores of aspiring young Nevada lawyers to Washington, financed them, trained them, got them jobs and finally sent them home as devoted McCarranites. "What the hell," said one recently...
Another type of suit is needed to counteract the effect of gravity forces. "G suits" do that job in the crudest way possible-by restricting the flow of blood. The G suit looks like a pair of close-fitting overalls, with five rubber bladders set in: one over the belly...
Theoretically, the G suit makes it possible for a pilot to tolerate as much as two Gs more than human nature in the raw. In practice, however, any flyer tenses his belly muscles when he is going into a tight turn, and this tends to dam the blood stream. Some...
Sriswasdi charged out of his corner, butted Kaeh in the chest, kicked him in the thigh, and clipped him on the back of the neck with a wicked elbow. By the middle of the second round, both fighters were smeared with blood. The music rose to a frenzied tattoo. With...
Living to Eat. Rama is a simple soul who, like Candide, thinks he is living in the best of all possible worlds. He can scarcely believe what is happening to him until he is down to the last princely robe on his back. Fortunately, the Hermitage of Gluttons takes the...